Kat Frankie - Shiny Things (2022)

Kat Frankie's new album is the work of an evolved observer, an insightful a perceptive thinker, an angry storyteller, but above all: a great songwriter Songwriter.

The 43-year-old Australian, who has been living in Berlin since 2004, seems to be directing a worried gaze at the entanglements of human activity. It's already evident in the titular opener, "Shiny Things," a richly voiced, densely orchestrated treatise on the inseparable relationship between beauty and decay
More than ever, the artist wonders what art can change. A reflection that has ensured to print the lyrics for the first time in her career. Kat Frankie's new songs could also be described as protest music, a kind of melancholic protest music: the many-voiced, subtly orchestrated mourning of something that cannot be and yet exists. And there they are again: the ghosts of the revolutions that rise through this album, to whom this music is dedicated. Kat Frankie wrote them for them. They are full of dignity and beauty.